Has 'One Piece' Really Outsold the Bible? Where the Rumor Started

'One Piece' is a pirate-themed manga with a die-hard fan base, and individuals are claiming it outsold the bible. But, has it in fact?

While e book gross sales are lowering each and every unmarried 12 months, there are some genres that manage to generate some massive numbers. Nonfiction autobiographies of liked public figures will almost at all times move copies, as are titles that have tie-ins with TV displays and films. Young grownup fiction continues to be doing well, but anime and manga fanatics know that there are rabid fan bases that lap up graphic novels like it's nobody's trade. But has One Piece really outsold the Bible?

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People are claiming the 'One Piece' manga has formally moved extra copies than the Bible.

There are 454 million copies of Eiichiro Oda's pirate-themed epic in move. As one Redditor, Placemakers_Evansbay puts it: "He is currently the 12th best selling fiction author of all time, if this pattern continues and One Piece continues for another 5-10 years he will pass J.K Rowling and Dr Seuss, and possibly Enid Blyton and Sidney Sheldon."

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Another user osuMazino additionally put this bit of knowledge to help further contextualize the manga's remarkable good fortune: "Imagine the amount of people that will start reading One Piece once it finish [sic]. The manga will spike in popularity even more for quite some time after its final chapter."

Many manga readers may not start a new collection until it is "completed" so they may be able to properly binge it. Oftentimes this ends up in a surge in even more e-book sales.

Add to the undeniable fact that the story is serialized in nature, and that means there are heaps of gaps current or past readers may wish to fill in at some point and there could be a lot extra issues of the widespread manga collection that shall be republished, repackaged, and bought down the line.

OharaLibrarianArtuer also pointed out, "If you ignore all the Harry Potter spin offs, One Piece has already become the best-selling literary series of all time."

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While 454 million copies and counting is a massive success, particularly when you believe that the first issue was released on Oct. 20, 1999, no, it hasn't outsold the Bible.

In fact, it hasn't even come just about touching the Adventures of Jesus and Friends (exchange name, almost certainly.) 

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The Bible has moved a whopping Five billion copies international. Which is smart given the undeniable fact that there are numerous Christians in the international and the first revealed reproduction of the Bible used to be round since 1454 or 1455, relying on which historian you ask.

Around each year, there are some 20 million copies of the ebook sold international.

So whilst One Piece has moved kind of one-seventh of the identical amount of copies as what many of us consider to be the phrases of an almighty God, it's nonetheless a pretty big accomplishment. It's simply the best possible selling manga sequence of all time, and that incorporates the manga Bible.

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